Quotes About Urgency

Get to the point, Dad. I have a country to run.

I wish our love was right now.

Reactionaries] Just feeling urgent and compulsive is enough to hurt us. We keep ourselves in a crisis state...ready to react to emergencies that aren't really emergencies. Someone does something, so we must do something back. Someone says something, so we must say something. Someone feels a certain way, so we must feel a certain way. WE JUMP INTO THE FIRST FEELING THAT COMES OUR WAY AND THEN WALLOW IN IT.

Reacting usually does not work. We react too quickly, with too much intensity and urgency. Rarely can we do our best at anything in this state of mind.

If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.

By Zeus's goolies, it's about time you got here!

beat upon the door.

A man whose house is burning to the ground does not carry water to his neighbour's fire

Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.

What if you were to die today... Tomorrow is not a promise but a chance.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

When you're left on the floor of a hospital gasping for breath, or you can't get your kid a school place, the simplest things are your idea of radical.

I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.

Don't worry about quality. Act, don't reflect. Momentum is everything. Get to THE END as if the devil himself were breathing down your neck and poking you in the butt with his pitchfork. Believe me, he is. Get the serum to Nome. Get the Conestoga wagon to the Oregon Trail. Get the first version of your project done from A to Z as fast as you can.

There is no other time. Today is the Superbowl. Today is the day I give birth. Today is the day I die.

I didn't take the death-and-dismemberment talk very seriously. Where could you rent a chainsaw at this time of night?

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

Every day we're one day closer to death. But there's no reason to rush into it.

Life is short. You have to do what you can while you have the chance.

she leaped down the porch steps to her car. There was no thought. No planning. Just action. When you get a call that your kid is in the ER, there can be no room for thinking. Just the deepest fear imaginable, the kind that gripped like a steel band around her chest.

Life and death do not wait for legal action. —Daphne du Maurier

Wheres the damn food at

The passage was underlined. It simply said: "What is it, Catullus? Why do you not make haste to die?" FOURTEEN